Weekly Updates

Weekly Update 2017-05-16 Dear Members and Advocates, In 2003, the Sex Offender Registry was determined by the Supreme Court of the United States, in Smith v. Doe, to be “non-punitive”. That means it’s not punishment and has further been described to be “civil” and “remedial”. But where else can you find sanctions for violating a civil statute so severe? Generally,

Weekly Update 2017-05-09 Dear Members and Advocates, The results from 2017’s legislative session are coming in and it’s a mixed bag. The good news, is that the one we were particularly concerned about, SB 1558, which would have created a “rebuttable presumption of dangerousness” to one’s own children and given DCF the green light to remove a registrant’s children from

Weekly Update 2017-05-03 Dear Members and Advocates, This week has been all about keeping school children safe from sexual assault. A topic that inarguably everyone is on board with and should be focused on. Marion County, Florida has instituted a new program “intended” to address this concern. They are posting three foot by three foot signs at school entrances warning registered

Weekly Update 2017-04-27 Dear Members and Advocates, This week the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals granted the homeless registrants another round of relief in denying Miami-Dade County’s request for a rehearing. The Order, which came out last week, offered little more than what we were hoping for; the words ‘Denied’, which means our challenge to the Miami-Dade County residency restriction

Weekly Update 2017-04-18 Dear Members and Advocates, It’s crunch time! We are coming to the end of legislative session and we are busy organizing and advocating. We need your help in calling on the legislators to OPPOSE the proposed Internet Identifier bills, specifically SB 684. This bill attempts to clarify the Internet Identifier statute which passed last year requiring all

Weekly Update 2014-04-04 Dear Members and Advocates, This Thursday, please don’t forget to join our Monthly member call, where our guest speakers will be reporter Joshua Vaughn of Cumberlink.com and William Dobbs of The Dobbs Wire. Josh Vaughn interviewed Therapist Robert Longo, the source of the “frightening and high” statistic, for an article Josh wrote about the misinterpretation and misuse